We wander, question. But the answer waits in each separate heart – the answer of our own identity and the way by which we can master loneliness and feel that at last we belong.
CARSON MCCULLERSThe human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
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Through the lies, she lived vicariously. The lies doubled the little of her existence that was left over from work and augmented the little rag end of her personal life.
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There is so much truth in children and so little self-consciousness. It always strikes me that they are so capable of losing and finding themselves and also losing and finding those things they feel close to.
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The people dreamed and fought and slept as much as ever. And by habit they shortened their thoughts so that they would not wander out into the darkness beyond tomorrow.
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Don’t you loathe it when doctors use the word ‘we’ when it applies only and solely to yourself?
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Writing, for me, is a search for God.
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There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
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As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.
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Wherever you look there’s meanness and corruption. This room, this bottle of grape wine, these fruits in the basket, are all products of profit and loss.
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For fear is a primary source of evil. And when the question “Who am I?” recurs and is unanswered, then fear and frustration project a negative attitude.
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The seed of the idea is developed by both labor and the unconscious, and the struggle that goes on between them.
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But you haven’t never loved God nor even nair person. You hard and tough as cowhide. But just the same I knows you. This afternoon you going to roam all over the place without never being satisfied.
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Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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It was like she was cheated. Only nobody had cheated her. So there was nobody to take it out on. However, just the same she had that feeling. Cheated.
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